The United States and the Armenian genocide history, memory, politics
"In 2021 the United States officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, ending five decades of political ambiguity by the U.S. government. That the U.S. maintained a position of non-recognition over several decades made this case a remarkable example of continuity in U.S. policy. Zarifian seeks...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New Brunswick ; Camden ; Newark, New Jersey ; London ; Oxford
Rutgers University Press
2024
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| Schriftenreihe: | Genocide, political violence, human rights
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "In 2021 the United States officially recognized the Armenian Genocide, ending five decades of political ambiguity by the U.S. government. That the U.S. maintained a position of non-recognition over several decades made this case a remarkable example of continuity in U.S. policy. Zarifian seeks to understand why and how the position of the United States evolved from a de facto recognition of the genocidal character of the Armenian Massacres to an ambivalent policy of "neutrality" that implicitly supported Turkey's official policy of denial. As a nation built on the destruction of Native peoples and on slavery the United States has often been particularly cautious in using the term genocide. The geopolitical importance of Turkey, however, as well as the result of battles for power and influence in Washington, D.C. by the organized Armenian American community also influenced U.S. policy on this matter." "During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler's prime inspirations for the Holocaust, yet the United States did not officially recognize the Armenian Genocide until 2021. This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s. Although the American government expressed sympathy towards the plight of the Armenians in the 1910s and 1920s, historian Julien Zarifian explores how, from the 1960s, a set of geopolitical and institutional factors soon led the United States to adopt a policy of genocide non-recognition which it would cling to for over fifty years, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike. He describes the forces on each side of this issue: activists from the US Armenian diaspora and their allies, challenging Cold War statesmen worried about alienating NATO ally Turkey and dealing with a widespread American reluctance to directly confront the horrors of the past. Drawing from congressional records, rare newspapers, and interviews with lobbyists and decision-makers, he reveals how genocide recognition became such a complex, politically sensitive issue." |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 310 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781978837928 978-1-9788-3792-8 9781978837935 978-1-9788-3793-5 |